Math Competition Handout Archive
This page contains pdf files with my handouts and other information.
Fall 2009
- Invariants 3 — May 3, 2010
- Invariants 2 — April 26, 2010
- Figure out my card trick — April 12, 2010
- Invariants — April 5, 2010
- Calendar and Coins Review 2 — March 29, 2010
- Calendar and Coins Review — March 22, 2010
- Had a Doomsday quiz, Coins — March 15, 2010
- Finished the Doomsday algorithm, Calendar — March 8, 2010
- Summer Math Camps, 2006 USA/Canada Math Camp Qualifying quiz — March 1, 2010
- Doomsday algorithm for 2010, AIME I 2000 — February 22, 2010
- No homework — February 8, 2010
- AMC 10A 2005, Problems 1-23 — February 1, 2010
- How to Boost Your Guessing Accuracy During Tests, AMC 10A 2003 Problems 14-22 — January 25, 2010
- Should You Check Your Answers During Tests?, AMC 10A 2003 Problems 1-8, AMC 10B 2004 Problems 1-9 — January 11, 2010
- AMC Practice — January 4, 2010
- Bulls and Cows Quiz — January 4, 2010
- Play Mastermind and Bulls and Cows — December 21, 2009
- Square Roots — December 14, 2009
- Alegebraic Expressions — December 7, 2009
- Symmetric Polynomials — November 30, 2009
- Palindromic Polynomials — November 23, 2009
- Rotations 2 — November 16, 2009
- Rotations — November 9, 2009
- Solve Cross Something-Or-Others puzzle from the MIT Mystery Hunt
- Sign up for HMNT (optional)
- Reflections — October 19, 2009 (Homework)
- Prepare for the Massachusetts Olympiad
- Think more about translations problems we didn't discuss
- Reflections — October 5, 2009 (Class discussion)
- Translations — September 29, 2009 (Homework)
- Find different transformations in the tesselations of M.C. Escher
- Translations — September 29, 2009 (Class discussion)
Fall 2009, 8 graders. Sometimes 8 graders get and easier homework. Some of it is a simpler version of Spring 2008:
Spring 2009
- Think about the marriage problem and find how the assumptions in this problem are different from the real life
- Math Induction — May 4, 2009 (Homework)
- Math Induction — April 27, 2009 (Class discussion)
- Solve the linguistics puzzles — April 13, 2009
- Remainders — April 6, 2009 (Homework)
- Homework — Figure out my magic trick
- Remainders — March 30, 2009 (Class discussion)
- Fibonacci Numbers — March 23, 2009 (Homework)
- Fibonacci Numbers — March 23, 2009 (Class discussion)
- Try sample problems from Math Kangaroo competition.
- Try 2004 AIME I.
- Solve the game of Nim.
- Play with three doors at Math Alive, you can find explanations on the previous page.
- Probability 2 — February 9, 2009 (Homework)
- Probability 2 — February 9, 2009 (Class discussion)
- The qualifying quiz for the USA/Canada MathCamp is now up.
- Probability — February 2, 2009 (Homework)
- Probability — February 2, 2009 (Class discussion)
- Computational Linguistics Olympiad, February 4, 2009 NACLO
- Sequences — January 26, 2009 (Homework)
- Sequences — January 26, 2009 (Class discussion)
- Combinatorics 2 — January 12, 2009 (Homework)
- Combinatorics 2 — January 12, 2009 (Class discussion)
- Try to solve the Functions puzzle from the 2008 MIT mystery hunt. This is not an individual homework, build teams and use help from family and friends, but do not check the answer online — January 5, 2009 (Homework)
- Practice calculating the last card in the game of set
- You can play 4D tic tac toe online.
Fall 2008
- The board for 4D tic tac toe — December 15, 2008 (Vacation Homework)
- Combinatorics — December 8, 2008 (Homework)
- Combinatorics — December 8, 2008 (Class discussion)
- Build a magic square from the set cards, also a magic cube and a hypercube.
- Review Set Theory — December 1, 2008 (Homework)
- The registration for Math Kangaroo is open.
- The registration for 2009 HMMT tournament ends December 1.
- Review Logic — November 24, 2008 (Homework)
- Played a game of set — Daily Set Puzzle November 24, 2008 (Class discussion)
- MIT 2008 SPLASH program runs on November 22 and 23, 2008
- Set Theory-2 — November 17, 2008 (Homework)
- Set Theory-2 — November 17, 2008 (Class discussion)
- Set Theory — November 10, 2008 (Homework)
- Set Theory — November 10, 2008 (Class discussion)
- The registration for MIT 2008 SPLASH program starts November 5, 2008
- AMSA sent two teams to local 2008 HMMT tournament, November 8, 2008.
- Word Problems — November 3, 2008 (Homework)
- Word Problems — November 3, 2008 (Class discussion)
- Logic and Arithmetic — October 27, 2008 (Homework)
- Logic and Arithmetic — October 27, 2008 (Class discussion)
- Logic-2 — October 20, 2008 (Homework)
- Logic-2 — October 20, 2008 (Class discussion)
- Logic — October 6, 2008 (Homework)
- Logic — October 6, 2008 (Class discussion)
- General Thinking — September 29, 2008
Spring 2008:
Last revised October 2008